Lisa Maruca

Lisa Maruca

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Eighteenth-century literature and culture
• Book history/text technologies
• Children's literature
• History of literacy
• Gender studies
• Race and colonialism
• Pedagogy

Education

Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1997

Awards and grants

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2021-22 Innovative Course Design Award for "Mediating the Global Eighteenth Century"
• CLAS Teaching Innovation, Development and Excellence (TIDE) Award (co-PI): $5000 to develop new public humanities course

Selected publications

• The Work of Print: Authorship and the English Text Trades, 1660-1760 (University of Washington Press: 2007)
• ““Vive La Plume!”: The Pleasures and Problems of Handwriting Pedagogy in the Long Eighteenth Century,” A History of the Futures of Handwriting in Early America. Ed. Mark Alan Mattes. University of Massachusetts Press: 2023.
• "What Is Critical Bibliography?" Special Issue on “New Approaches to Critical Bibliography and the Material Text,” (edited with Kate Ozment), Criticism 64: 3-4 (2023)
• “Mediating the Student Body: Labor, Literacy, and Experiential Learning in the Book History Classroom," Teaching the History of the Book. Eds. Emily Todd and Matteo Pangallo. University of Massachusetts Press: 2023.
  Fielding and the Pamela Media Event,” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding. Eds. Elizabeth Kraft and Jennifer Wilson. New York: Modern Language Association of America: 2015
• “Afterword,” Print Culture, Agency, and Regional Identity in the Hand Press Period. Eds. Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer, and Adam James Smith. London, Palgrave Macmillan: 2022. (5000 words)
• “The Plagiarism Panic: Digital Policing in the New Intellectual Property Regime.” New Directions in Copyright Law. Vol. 2. Ed. Fiona Macmillan. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006
• “Plagiarism and its (Disciplinary) Discontents: Towards an Interdisciplinary Theory and Pedagogy.” Issues in Integrative Studies 21 (2004): 74-97
• “Bodies of Type: The Work of Textual Production in English Printers’ Manuals.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 36:3 (spring 2003): 321-343.
• “Political Propriety and Feminine Property: Women in the Eighteenth-Century Text Trades.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 34 (2001): 79-99

 

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Courses taught by Lisa Maruca

Fall Term 2023

• ENG6002 - Teaching of Literary and Cultural Studies

Winter Term 2023

• ENG4991 - Honors Seminar
• ENG5680 - Children's Literature
• ENG5992 - Senior Seminar

Fall Term 2022

• ENG2560 - Children’s and Young Adults' Literature: Writing about Texts